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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2016
Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Kaiyuan Yang, Cumming, GA (US);
Carl Gerard Rippl, Appleton, WI (US);
Peiguang Zhou, Appleton, WI (US);
Yiming Weng, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Michael Andrew Zawadzki, Appleton, WI (US);
Stephen Michael Lindsay, Appleton, WI (US);
James Benjamin Harvey, Spring City, TN (US);
Joel Brostin, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc., Neenah, WI (US);
Abstract
A substrate has an elastomeric film having surfaces and a nonwoven web having fibers, wherein a plurality of fibers is partially embedded in one surface of the film. In addition, a substrate has an elastomeric film and a nonwoven web having fibers, wherein a plurality of fibers is partially embedded in one surface of the film, and wherein the substrate is essentially free of adhesives and film-based microfibers. A method for making a film/nonwoven composite includes providing an elastomeric film traveling in a machine direction; providing a nonwoven web traveling in the machine direction in face-to-face contact with the film, wherein the nonwoven web includes fibers; and impinging the elastomeric film with hydro jets such that at least some of the fibers become embedded in the film.